Medals table

I'll sign off for tonight with the news that GB have overtaken Russia and are in second place in the medals table after golds for David Weir And Jonnie Peacock – GB have 31/38/38 (107), Russia 30/31/23 (84). Here's a pic of David Weir to finish. What a wonderful evening – which continues with the field events and the wheelchair basketball but I'm done. Please join Paul Owen tomorrow morning. Good night.

Peacock at the peak

Count our blessings

This from nexusmn BTL:

Hello all.

As I’ve mentioned before, in the USA there has been a total blackout of any Paralympics-oriented attention. The best way for interested North Americans to watch the actual sports and events is on YouTube.

As I’m sure you know, mainstream US television is ruled by ABC, NBC, and CBS. NBC have the exclusive license for both the Olympics and the Paralympics. During the Olympics there was saturation coverage on four NBC channels.

As the licensee, they (it?) have steadfastly, and disgracefully, ignored the events in London, refusing to show even minimal interest on their regular evening news programmes. In the past few days they’ve been getting a lot of criticism for this lack of perception, and have begun showing an hour of Paralympic events each evening. They have a one-time, daily Special Report on one of their cable-TV Sports networks. That’s for today. Tomorrow we’re being treated to Rocky 5 instead. (It’s true!) And that is possibly the US televisual Paralympics for 2012.

Yesterday’s focused on swimming, visually-impaired Men’s 100 meters and long jump, the Men’s 1500 meter, with a long section of the US getting to the semi-finals of the Women’s Wheelchair basketball game v. Canada,. There was no Cameron, and none of that awful booing, either. Oh no.

There’s a lot of competition in the news, but the Paralympics aren’t going away.

So, please stop pissing and moaning about missed coverage. Thank you.

9.37pm BST

Meanwhile …

In the discus. Dan Greaves, who broke off from his second throw to bellow encouragement at David Weir, wasleading after three throws – he threw 59.01m with his third. But Jeremy Campbell has just hit 60.05m with his fourth.

9.33pm BST

What a start

From Peacock, he led almost from the off and was in charge with 50m to go. He finished with a PR of 10.9sec. The USA's Richard Browne won silver 0.13sec behind, Arnu Fourie bronze. Pistorius was fourth, Leeper fifth, Singleton sixth, Oliveira seventh and Liu eighth.

9.30pm BST

What a race!

Alan Oliveira looks to have false started but the green card only is shown. Peacock begs for silence. Tense. Tense. He kisses his St Christopher and Peacock wins. He wins. He wins.

Men's T43/44 100m

Weir wins his third gold

What pace. What skill. And what nerve. Brilliant strategy and the power to pull it off. Hug was second. Zhang third.

What nerve, what pace and what skill. "That was hard work," he says. "I had to dig deep. This one's for my kids." Hug was second, Zhang third. Excellent strategy to match Zhang's speed and the ability, courage and stamina to pull it off.

9.17pm BST

Men's T54 800m

Weir goes wide with 150m to go and WINS!

9.17pm BST

Men's T54 800m

Zhang leads after the first 400m, Weir second.

9.15pm BST

It's Seanie in the NGA

Sean Ingle writes:

Hello again from the North Greenwich Arena where Great Britain are about to play in the late, late, show against Canada for a place in Saturday's final against ... Australia, who beat USA 72-63 in the first semi-final. The Australians got the jump on their opponents early, led 18-8 at the first quarter, and never looked back. Now can Britain spring a surprise and join them?

Marlou van Rhijn wins gold in the women's T44 200m

And breaks the world record. Hell, the "Blade Babe" is bloody quick. Marie Amelie Le Fur won silver, besting the old WR, Katrin Green bronze and GB's Stef Reid fourth in a PB 28.62sec. Her team-mate Sophie Kamlish also recorded a PB and finished sixth. Ace race.

Jonnie Peacock profile

Some thoughts on ParalympicsGB meeting (and exceeding) their target

The UK Sport chair Baroness Sue Campbell said:

For ParalympicsGB to reach this target with several days of competition still to go is a clear demonstration of the immense talent of the athletes on the programme, their hard work and dedication and the support network we have helped build around them."

The second part of UK Sport's target was to win medals in at least 12 sports. ParalympicsGB have so far been on the podium in 13.

Campbell continued:

"The London Paralympics Games have been a truly wonderful display of sporting excellence and a testament to the power of the human spirit. To see what our athletes have achieved has been inspirational. This success is further proof that UK Sport's high performance system, funded by National Lottery, Government and private investment through Team 2012 investment, is one of the best in the world.

"Our Paralympic athletes have continued where their Olympic counterparts left off with a succession of truly brilliant performances." The British team are also in line to exceed their targets in a number of individual sports.

ParalympicsGB chef de mission Craig Hunter said:

"The final target remains to finish second overall in the medal table. We know that this will be a close run thing with three more days to go. As we predicted, China has proven to be untouchable at the head of the table. Russia are proving to be very powerful as are the USA, Ukraine, Australia and other nations who are all still in the mix. I am delighted that we have succeeded in this aim with three days of competition still to go.

Hugh Robertson, the minister for sport and the Olympics, said:

ParalympicsGB have performed superbly to better the medal count from Beijing on home soil. They have made the nation proud with some inspirational displays at the highest level in sport. With funding already secured for Paralympics GB in the run up to Rio I am confident that disability sport in this country will go from strength to strength.

Updated at 8.27pm BST

8.18pm BST

Owen Gibson (@owen_g)

Brazilian Yohansson Nascimento falls halfway in the T46 100m and gets up to hobble to the finish in 1.30.79.

Abidogun wins bronze

Zhao Xu wins gold, Raciel Gonzalez silver. Nascimento, the favourite, pulled up after 40m or so with a problem with his left hamstring. Abidogun pipped Galadima by 0.08sec. Wahay!

8.14pm BST

Waiting for the men's T46 100m

This is for single-arm amputees and GB's Ola Abidogun goes in lane 7.

7.57pm BST

Chen holds off Goncharova

In the T38 200m – still the Russian has three golds and now a silver. Chen Jun-fei has a gold and two silvers to go with her world record in this event. It was supposed to be too chilly for WRs tonight out east. But not at all so far.

7.48pm BST

Another gold for GB's Hannah Cockroft

The crowd was on its feet as she rounded the bend in the T34 200m and she led by a country mile, winning by 2.25sec from the Dutch pair of Amy Siemons and Desiree Vranken. Mel Nicholls was seventh.

And that, of course, was medal No104. But Russia are having a good night, leading GB 30 golds to 29 overall.

Updated at 7.52pm BST

7.46pm BST

Bullseye

My colleague Stephen McMillan sends this news that GB have met their target:

The ParalympicsGB team at the London 2012 Games surpassed its Beijing total, achieving part of its numerical target as set by UK Sport, when swimmer Heather Frederiksen won silver in the S8 100m Freestyle tonight (Thursday).

The numerical target was to win 103 medals – one more than in Beijing.

“I am delighted that we have succeeded in this aim with three days of competition still to go,” said ParalympicsGB chef de mission Craig Hunter. “It is testament to the talent, dedication and skill of the athletes who make up the team as well as to their support staff and to the funding we receive from the National Lottery and commercial partners.”

ParalympicsGB has also achieved its secondary target which was to win “more medals across more sports than in 2008”.

At these Games, the team has won medals so far in the sports of Archery, Athletics, Boccia, Cycling, Equestrian, Judo, Powerlifting, Rowing, Sailing, Shooting, Swimming, Table Tennis and Wheelchair Tennis – 13 in total compared to 11 sports in Beijing.

“The final target remains to finish second overall in the medal table. We know that this will be a close run thing with three more days to go. As we predicted, China has proven to be untouchable at the head of the table. Russia are proving to be very powerful as are the USA, Ukraine, Australia and other nations who are all still in the mix,” added Hunter.

7.42pm BST

Jessica Long wins another gold

And the USA swimnmer set another world record in the S8 100m freestyle. GB's Heather Frederiksen came second and Australia's incredible 13-year-old Maddison Elliott took bronze. Remarkable.

Updated at 7.43pm BST

7.38pm BST

From the Olympic Stadium

Ian Prior writes:

David Weir may have a rival for track athlete of the games. Russia's Evgenii Shvetcov tonight won his third gold of these Paralympics, adding the T36 800m to his previous victories in the 100m and 400m, a barely believable range of distances and not a trick Usain Bolt will ever pull off. Britain's Paul Blake took bronze, having also been beaten to silver by Shvetcov in the 400m.

Blake hit the front at the beginning of the second lap but Shvetcov was too strong.

7.36pm BST

Paul Blake wins bronze in the T36 800m

Evgeni Shvetcov of Russia won with Artem Arefyev second.

7.33pm BST

Yinan Wang wins the men's 100m freestyle

And, guess what, it's another world record, the Russians Tarasov and Lisenkov were second and third. GB's Young was sixth and Fraser seventh.

7.31pm BST

Back at the pool

And playing catch-up … Mexico's Juan Reyes won his fourth Paralympic gold in succession in men's S4 50m backstroke. We're waiting for the S8 100m freestyle for the men up next with Sean Fraser and Thomas Young trying to match Russia's Tarasov but there's also Paul Blake v Artem Arefyev in the T36 800m on the track at roughly the same time.

7.16pm BST

Possible hamstring knack for Alan Oliveira?

"Just saw this on my Twittter feed" writes Alexandra Topping in the stadium. "Apparently Channel 4's Danny Crates is reporting that Brazil's Alan Oliveira looked uncomfortable in warm-up and may have a hamstring problem. He only qualified as one of the fastest losers to get into this final.

Bronze for Ben Rushgrove

Roman Pavlyk won and Hong Kong's Wai Wai So took silver. Ballard was fourth after a winged-footed start. Rushgrove's 24.83 was a PB.

7.09pm BST

Over at the Olympic Park

It's taters. As we can tell by our former colleague John Rawlings's windcheater (as my mother would call it). It was parky last night, too. First up on the track tonight is Ben Rushgrove and Graeme Ballard in the T36 200m.

7.04pm BST

Wahay! We're going live

With Sean Ingle:

Greetings from the 02, sorry North Greenwich Arena, for the semi-finals of the men's wheelchair basketball tournament. First off in a minute or two is Australia against USA then, at 9.15pm, it's Canada v Great Britain. Australia are ranked No1 in the world and are Paralympic and world champions - and they also beat the US in the group stages by 15 points. It would be a major shock if they lost. Great Britain are also up against it. They are playing a Canadian team who beat them in the group stages and possess Patrick Anderson, the best wheelchair basketball player in the world.

6.47pm BST

Josef Craig's Marco Tardelli moment

Go Joe. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/EPA.

6.32pm BST

Tanaka wins SB14 100m breastroke gold

And like Josef Craig, sets his second WR of the day. And Michelle Alonso Morales wins the women's 100m breaststroke in another Norris McWhirter bothering time. That's some fast water in Stratford.

More from Josef Craig

The C4 interview transcribed:

I genuinely didn't think this would happen but I thought 'last 400m of the season, it doesn't matter if I die at the end, just go for it, it doesn't matter. I didn't realise that I'd broken the world record, I didn't think I had it in me. But obviously because of this great crowd again and all this support, I managed to. It means more than anything in the world. It's the happiest day of my life. I can't believe what's happened. It's amazing. I wish I could do it all over again."

6.14pm BST

Rodgers brings up the century

Her bronze in the 400m freestyle was GB's 100th of the Games.

6.11pm BST

Jacqueline Freney storms to gold

For Australia in the S7 400m freestyle. An absolute massacre as she won her seventh gold and broke the world record. But what a sprint from Susannah Rodgers at the end … she almost took silver but in the end won bronze behind Cortney Jordan by .04 of a second, setting a new European record and, obviously, a PB in the process.

6.07pm BST

Belated update from Eton Manor

My colleague Patrick Barkham has sad news for GB's tennis quest:

It's an orangewash: women from the Netherlands are guaranteed to win all colours of medal in both the singles and doubles competition after the Dutch pair Jiske Griffioen and Aniek van Koot defeated the last remaining Brits in the tennis, Lucy Shuker and Jordanne Whiley, 6-4, 6-3. I confess I know very little about wheelchair tennis but Whiley, who is only 20, looks a great prospect for the future.

6.02pm BST

The winner speaks

"It means more than anything. This is the best day of my life. I wish I could do it all over again. It's amazing," says Josef Craig. What a top lad. His gold puts GB one behind Russia.

6.00pm BST

Handing it back

Owen Gibson (@owen_g)

Medalgate update part 56: the Ukrainian discus thrower who was victim of dodgy scoring has finally returned her gold medal.

Gold and a world record for GB's Josef Craig

The 15-year-old regained the lead on the fifth length and never looked back. Pan was second, Gladkov won bronze. That's his second world record of the day and he becomes GB's youngest ever male gold medal-winning Paralympic swimmer. He took 2.98sec off this morning's WR swim.

Updated at 8.01pm BST

5.53pm BST

Halfway in the men's 400m freestyle

Men's 400m freestyle begins with Josef Craig picking up where he left off this morning, three seconds ahead of his world record time from this morning. Pan Shiyun takes the lead after four lengths.

5.45pm BST

Another Paralympic gold for Natalie du Toit

GB's Stephanie Millward was in the lead after the first 100m but Du Toit's breastroke took first place in the women's 200m individual medley SM9 and she hung on for her 13th gold. Millward won silver and Louise Watkin bronze.

5.37pm BST

At the gala

The men's 200m individual medley SM9 begins the run of tonight's 14 finals. Australia's Matt Cowdrey is the defending champion and begins well, GB's James Crisp using his strength in the backstroke to fight back after the butterfly. Cowdrey wins, Andriy Kalyna of Ukraine is second and Federico Morlacchi is third. Crisp was fifth, his freestyle exploited by faster crawlers.

5.31pm BST

One love

The Dutch have won the first set of the women's doubles semi-final 6-4 against British pair Lucy Shuker and Jordanne Whiley but 20-year-old Whiley is brilliant value, constantly on the move, spinning around and fighting for every point. It's not a plucky British loser story yet...

5.28pm BST

Over at the regatta

Steven Morris sends us his dispatch on the day's events:

In the end it wasn't quite the way the British sailing team had imagined winning its first ever Paralympic medals. A dearth of wind on the Dorset coast meant that the team spent the final hours of the six-day regatta holed up in the GB container (some watching the Tom Cruise film Top Gun) rather than charging for the finishing line in Portland Harbour.

Not that Helena Lucas was too worried. She was leading the standings and so took gold in the single-person 2.4mR, a huge achievement in the the trickiest boat and probably the most competitive of the three Paralympic classes. Lucas, the only woman in the 2.4 fleet, went into the final day with a nine-point cushion after a brilliant regatta.

In the SKUD-18 class there was a tinge of disappointment for Alexandra Rickham and Niki Birrell, whose hopes of upgrading to silver were thwarted by the becalming.

But there was huge sadness and frustration for the Sonar trio of John Robertson, Stephen Thomas and Hannah Stodel, who missed out on bronze following an extraordinary off-the-water dispute between their bosun – who looks after the boat on land - and an official over the cleaning of their vessel.

The bosun, double Olympic medalist Simon Hiscocks, had continued to wipe the boat down after being ordered to stop by an official following a race earlier in the week. Though all parties accepted that the wiping down would not improve the performance of the vessel, the Sonar team was penalised by four points because of Hiscocks' refusal to comply with a "reasonable request" and cease.

It led to the Sonar crew dropping from bronze medal position to fifth and the lack of racing yesterday/on Thursday robbed them of the chance of clawing their way back on to the podium. It may not be the end of the matter. Calling it a "sad day for the sport", the team said it would try to get the decision reversed. Stephen Parks, ParalympicsGB Sailing team leader, said: “We will continue to investigate what options are available to rectify this situation. It is a sad day for the sport."

Lucas expressed sympathy for the Sonar crew and said it was a shame that her celebrations began in the boat park rather than on the water. “It would have been brilliant to do one final race. To have celebrated on the water would have been fantastic but it was pretty flat calm out there.”

Still, her win is the high-point of a great career in both Olympic and Paralympic sailing. Born without thumbs, the 37-year-old became one of GB's most talented sailors and won a silver medal in the 2006 Olympic test event in Beijing in the Yngling class.

By that time she was already also competing in the 2.4mR Paralympic class and was disappointed to finish in seventh at the Beijing Paralympics and was one of the last sailors to be picked for London 2012. Lucas said there was “huge sense of relief” that the years of hard work had paid off.

The medals are a vindication of the British sailing team's all-encompassing approach. There was soul-searching after the Paralympic sailors returned from Beijing empty-handed. Since then the Paralympic sailors have lived and trained cheek by jowl with the Olympic squad. Working alongside the likes of four-time gold medalist Ben Ainslie has inspired the six Paralympic sailors – the same group that failed in Beijing - on to greater heights. “All the Olympic guys have been pushing us all the way,” said Lucas. "It's been really close racing and great fun to be out there performing on home waters. It''s amazing for Paralympic sailing.” She said she had forgotten that the rest of the fleet were men. "I am so used to going up against the guys, I forget."

Both the Olympic and Paralympic events have been judged a great success by council leaders and many local people in Weymouth and Portland.

There was concern earlier in the summer that the area might miss out on Olympic fever because, with the best will in the world, sailing does not make the best spectator sport.

But during the Olympics tens of thousands of people flocked this stretch of the Dorset coast (70,000 arrived to watch Ben Ainslie win his gold medal) and most thoroughly enjoyed it.

The Paralympic regatta has been a little more low key. There has been no official spectator park and both sailors and local organisers have been disappointed by the lack of television coverage.

But a park overlooking the harbour at Sandsfoot Castle has been commandeered by fans as an unofficial viewing area and a sailing club, the Castle Cove, has opened its doors to family and friends of spectators. As many as 10,000 people have taken part in Paralympic sports on Weymouth Beach arranged by the borough council.

The gold and bronze medals means ParalympicsGB tops the sailing medal table along with Holland, pushing the Australians into third. The Paralympic team has long been overshadowed by its Olympic counterparts. But with Ainslie et al finishing only third in their table last month it could be argued that Lucas and her team-mates have at last out-performed them.

5.24pm BST

T44 100m final

It's all about Jonnie Peacock as far as the UK coverage is concerned and watching him last night suggests he's the clear favourite when the race starts at around 9.15pm but I spoke to Jerome Singleton back in July and must admit that I will be cheering him on tonight. He was among the most charming and stirring people I've ever had a conversation with.

5.11pm BST

"This has never happened to me before!"

… writes Patrick Barkham: "I blogged too soon: the Dutch have won three consecutive games and now lead the British pair 4-3 in the first set of the women's doubles semi-final.

I know there's lots of exciting stuff going on at the Paralympics this afternoon but there are still empty seats at Eton Manor. Perhaps it's because it's such a long walk from the rest of the Olympic Park. It can't be the weather – did I mention the glorious sunshine?

I expect it is the long walk, Patrick. It was just too far for my children yesterday.

5.06pm BST

Evening all

And what better way to get started on this stint than by diving straight into it as I struggle to remember how to type after some time away from the desk and two actual trips to the Olympic Park this week, more of which later. You can contact me, as it says above, on rob.bagchi@guardian.co.uk. Any road, here's Patrick Barkham, live from Eton Manor, with an update on the tennis:

The Dutch completely dominate women's wheelchair tennis but we've got a game on at Eton Manor. The last British players in the competition, Lucy Shuker and Jordanne Whiley, have made a storming start to their doubles semi-final against Dutch pair Jiske Griffioen and Aniek van Koot. They lead 3-1, and Whiley, who is only 20 but started playing the sport aged two, is an impressively hyperactive presence on court. Her dyed red hair makes a nice change from all the orange. Come on you reds!

4.57pm BST

Handover

That's it from me for the day. What an afternoon. My colleague Rob Bagchi will be an hand to cover all the action this evening. Thanks for all your comments and see you bright and early tomorrow.

4.51pm BST

Here is a summary of today’s key events

•Britain’s Sarah Storey proved herself a class apart as she won the women’s C4-5 road race, overtaking a men’s road race that had started two minutes earlier on the same track and beating her nearest rival by seven and a half minutes over 64km.She has now won a record-equalling 11 Paralympic golds over her career, five of them as a swimmer before she switched to cycling in 2008. She won gold in all four events she entered this Paralympics; the C5 pursuit was won with a similar head-turning flourish to today’s race, when she caught up with her opponent, Poland’s Anna Harkowska, ending the race instantly.

•Channel 4 failed to show the race on TV or online. A spokesman said that the Olympic Broadcasting Services, which supplies video and audio to C4, chose not to supply live footage of the road cycling, and Channel 4 could not set this up themselves because it would lack the live timing and lap information about the riders that would make it comprehensible to the viewer.

• It was a great morning for Britain at the Aquatics Centre in the swimming heats. Josef Craig broke the world record in his heat of the 400m freestyle S7. His team-mate Jonathan Fox won the other heat. The final is tonight at 5.47pm. GB’s Susannah Rodgers broke the European record to win her heat of the S7 400m freestyle in 5:22.08. The final is at 5.58pm. Heather Frederiksen won her heat of the 100m freestyle S8, although America's Jessica Long broke the world record to win the other heat. The final is at 7.29pm. GB’s Louise Watkin and Claire Cashmore came first and second in their heat of the 200m medley SM9, and Britain’s Stephanie Millward came in second behind South Africa’s Natalie du Toit in theirs. The final is at 5.38pm. Britain's James Crisp came second in his heat of the men's individual 200m medley SM9. The final is at 5.30pm. Britain's Andrew Mullen qualified for the final of the men's 50m backstroke S5, which is tonight at 7.59pm. Thomas Young and Sean Fraser got through to the final of the 100m freestyle S8, which is at 7.22pm. Aaron Moores and Daniel Pepper qualified for tonight’s 100m breaststroke SB14 final, for athletes with an intellectual disability. In the woman’s version of the same event, the Paralympic record was broken in each of the three heats, which meant Britain’s Natalie Massey was edged out of qualifying despite coming second in her heat, which was the slowest of the three.

•GB’s Hannah Cockroft broke the Paralympic record to win her heat of the 200m T34 wheelchair race in 33.20sec. Her team-mate Melissa Nicholls also qualified for tonight’s final, which is at 7.44pm, but Cockroft - who won gold at the 100m event on Friday - seems utterly dominant right now. Britain's Shelly Woods won her heat of the 1500m T54 wheelchair race. Her compatriot Jade Jones, 16, also went through to the final, as fastest loser, despite coming fifth in her heat. The final is tonight at 9.08pm.

•Holland's Jiske Griffioen won bronze in the women's singles tournament, beating Sabine Ellerbrock of Germany 6-2, 7-6. The Netherlands will take gold, silver and bronze no matter what happens in the final between Esther Vergeer – who is as unbeatable on the court as Sarah Storey is on the track – and Aniek van Koot tomorrow.

4.38pm BST

Cycling

Sarah Storey came in with a time of 1:40.36 in the women's C4-5 road race. Poland's Anna Harkowska took silver with a time of 1:47.58, so Storey was seven and a half minutes faster than her. The US's Kelly Crowley won bronze with a time of 1:48.34, and GB's Crystal Lane was sixth.

The men's C1-3 road race was won by Italy's Roberto Bargna in a time of 1:42.51.

4.35pm BST

Channel 4

Here is Channel 4's statement on not covering the road cycling live:

The host broadcasters OBS do not provide live coverage, or live timing and graphics, for the Paralympic road cycling events – although Channel 4 has put in place cameras at Brands Hatch and Ned Boulting has broadcast highlights and updates throughout our coverage. Channel 4 is broadcasting an unprecedented level of coverage of the London 2012 Paralympic Games, with through-the-day coverage broadcast on Channel 4 and around 500 hours of coverage in total across our channels.

4.34pm BST

Discus

Apologies to Britain's Beverley Jones. I forgot to report earlier that she won a bronze in the F37 discus this morning.

4.31pm BST

Cycling

Storey was asked about equalling Grey-Thompson's record of 11 Paralympic golds:

To be even on the same page, as I said yesterday, as Tanni, but to have won 11 ... and made today a clean sweep for this week is just a dream come true. I can't thank enough people ... I'm so proud to be part of such an amazing team and I'm just so pleased to be finished now as well!

4.29pm BST

Cycling

Storey was asked if she had been making a point by overtaking the men's race.

To be honest I'd completely forgotten about them until I could see the back of their peloton. I was thinking: "Oh! Oh no! The boys are there." So the commissaires got me through OK and then obviously the way tactical races work, they're speeding up and slowing down, so in the end I just said: "Can we do some kind of neutralising, either me and the girls or them?" and the comms neutralised the boys for a while, and I just managed to hold them off, but I was dying.

4.25pm BST

Cycling

Sarah Storey was just interviewed on Channel 4. She said:

I just can't believe I pulled it off today. I'm just so chuffed. It was just amazing. The crowds around the course, and coming into the finish straight every single lap I wanted to be able to say thank you but obviously I had to keep my head down, make sure I made no mistakes. I got tangled a bit with the guys [the men's road race going on at the same time], I was thinking: "Please don't take me down, please don't take me down ..." but ... goodness me, I can't get over it.

Cycling

Cycling

Peter Walker writes:

In response to Geoff103 Storey didn't gain any advantage by catching the men; she's not allowed to draft riders from another race and you could clearly see her hanging a few metres back when she caught them. That's why the commissaires slowed down the men's race briefly, to let her go past.

Storey has just taken the bell for the start of the last lap - it's gold for sure, barring crashes or falling meteorites. McKeown in the pack as the men take the bell soon afterwards.

3.56pm BST

USA

In this video Aimee Mullins, a former Paralympian herself and the current chef de mission for the United States 2012 Paralympic team, discusses why the London Games are the greatest show on earth. Mullins, who is a double amputee, competed at the 1996 Paralympics in Atlanta, where she set a series of world records.

3.54pm BST

Channel 4

I’ve just been speaking to a Channel 4 spokesman about why the road racing has not been covered live.

As suspected, he said the Olympic Broadcasting Services don’t provide live coverage from Brands Hatch. They don’t cover all Paralympic events, as we know. That means, he said, that even if C4 provided cameras to cover the event live, they wouldn’t have the live timing and lap information about the riders that would make it comprehensible to the viewer.

“We have put cameras in, but we don’t have them covering the whole event live,” the spokesman said. “We’re not able to put cameras in to cover it live. There isn’t live timing, for example.”

He pointed out that at the last Paralympics the BBC, which was showing the Games, only broadcast a one-hour highlights programme each day, although there was some more coverage online.

The spokesman said he would send me a statement, which I will post when I get it.

3.49pm BST

Cycling

A two minute starting gap between the two races was clearly a mistake with a rider of the quality of Storey in the women's field. Once Storey (or any other competitor ) gets in or ahead of the men's peloton there is absolutely no chance of the rest of the women making it a race for Gold.

Does/Did Storey compete in the 'normal' Olympics, sure I read she did.

How much slower than them is she, if she is so much faster than her Para peers?

Storey was in contention to be part of the women's team pursuit squad at the Olympics this year, but did not make the top three in the end. So she has never competed at the Olympics. As Peter suggested earlier, her performances at the Paralympics – where she has so often seemed in a class of her own – do seem to be about making a statement. Four years is a long time in sport, however; other cyclists may have emerged by the time of the 2016 Rio Olympics and Storey will be 38.

peterwalker99 (@peterwalker99)

Crystal Lane now fair way off the medal chasers. In better news, Shaun McKeown still in men's pack. About 2/3 of both races gone

Cycling

Cycling

Peter Walker adds to the debate on the lack of coverage of the road cycling by Channel 4:

There is live TV coverage of the race - we can see it in the press centre. It's not very good - the camera on the back of the motorbike keeps on showing road and trees rather than Storey - but it exists. It would seem to be a choice by C4, even if maybe that choice is down to the pictures just not being that good. Maybe they're worried that the lack of accompanying information would make the commentary seem uninformed, as happened with the BBC in the Olympics.

3.20pm BST

Cycling

Peter Walker is in awe at Brands Hatch:

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Sarah Storey's lead now more than 4 mins. Let's just hand her the gold as she rides past next. Lane in next group, of five

Amid all the fuss about Storey let's not ignore the men's C1-2-3 race. Mark Colbourne, as expected, is lagging a bit, but Shaun McKeown is in the middle of the lead pack. Storey's team-mate, Crystal Lane, meanwhile, is with the main women's chasing pack and on the hunt for silver.

3.18pm BST

Sailing

A great response from Pagey below the line to GB's loss of points (and perhaps loss of medal) in the sailing because a member of GB's onshore team continued to wipe the boat down after an official told him to stop.

What a bunch of barnacle-arsed bilge rats!

3.14pm BST

Cycling

This road race that Sarah Storey is winning in imperious style seems like one of the major events of the Paralympics, but Channel 4 are not showing it on TV, or any of their internet channels.

As we have been discussing below the line, the Olympic Broadcasting Services provide audio and visual feeds of the Paralympic sports to C4, but do not provide coverage of all sports live.

My feeling is that they should have invested in putting some of these extra cameras at Brands Hatch, and filmed and shown the road cycling. It was quite obvious to anyone watching Storey in particular in the velodrome that she was extremely likely to win a medal.

Channel 4 just cut to a reporter at Brands Hatch and a few clips of Storey racing, so they do seem to have some cameras there.

I have put a call in to C4 about all this and will let you know what they say.

Cycling

Her first 8km lap took 11 min 58 secs - just 30 seconds slower than her direct male equivalents, this morning's C4-5 race. She's finished two of eight laps and is a long way ahead in first.

2.56pm BST

Sailing

The British Sonar trio of John Robertson, Stephen Thomas and Hannah Stodel were penalised four points last night for an off-the-water rule infringement, which dropped them to fifth place from third. A member of GB's onshore team continued to wipe the boat down after an official told him to stop.

My colleague Michael Perkins points out that the BPA issued an official statement on their website this morning regarding the penalty. Stephen Parks, ParalympicsGB's sailing team leader, said:

The team bosun, Simon Hiscocks, himself a double Olympic medallist, was authorised to lift the GB Sonar out of the water to inspect and repair some minor damage following racing on Tuesday. Towards the end of the repair, the measurer requested for the bosun not to clean the port side of the keel. The bosun believed this to be a requirement of the job he had been authorised by the measurer to perform, and continued, prompting the measurer to file a report to the International Jury.

The Jury determined that the bosun, through his actions of failing to obey a member of the race committee, had breached a Sailing Instruction and subsequently imposed a 30 per cent discretionary penalty on the GB Sonar team – which equated to four points. The GB team management strongly contested this penalty, believing the Jury did not follow correct procedures in raising the SI breach, that the GB Sonar crew should and could not be held responsible for the actions of the bosun in this instance, and that the four-point penalty imposed was grossly disproportionate to the deemed transgression – particularly as it was agreed by all parties that there was no performance advantage gained by the GB Sonar team through the actions of the bosun.

The GB team is hugely disappointed that the medals at a Paralympic Sailing event could be determined in this manner for such a minor off-the-water transgression and therefore we will continue to investigate what options are available to rectify this situation to try to ensure the medals at these Paralympic Games are determined by the talents of the athletes on the water.

They're pretty strict in sailing.

Updated at 2.57pm BST

2.47pm BST

Cycling

Peter Walker reports from Brands Hatch:

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Gap now up to 40 secs. Storey will soon overtake men who started 2 mins early. She's treating this like a time trial

Cycling

Just five or so minutes into the race and ... Sarah Storey has already broken away from the field, Peter Walker reports. Look like she plans to do this one on her own, Peter notes.

2.40pm BST

Cycling

Both races have now set off, reports Peter Walker. They are taking place simultaneously on the same track, although the men set off two minutes before the women.

McKeown rode away near the front of the pack while Colbourne was near the back, Peter reports. Expect Storey and Lane to catch up the men - who have more severe impairments - before too long.

2.28pm BST

Cycling

After a between-race gap, when most of the people inside Brands Hatch seemed to be queuing at the small number of food outlets, we're aboutto get more action, reports Peter Walker.

At 2.30pm Mark Colbourne and Shaun McKeown head off in the men's C1-2-3 road race. The former has a gold and two silvers already but is unlikely to add to the haul from his debut Paralympics, aged 42. He's a C1 rider, the most physically impaired class, taking on C2 and C3 athletes, and there is no "factoring", or altering times to take into account varying levels of disability, in this event.

Colbourne said yesterday he finds the hilly circuit especially tricky as the paragliding accident in 2009 which broke his back left him with no strength in his hamstrings or gluteal muscles.

McKeown is in with a shout, as a C3 rider. He's no sprinter, he said yesterday, but aims to be strong enough to join any breakaway. He could get a medal.

Two minutes later the women's C4-5 race sets off, with Sarah Storey and Crystal Lane - the latter my favourite Paralympian name - going for GB. They'll hope to support each other if things get tough. Such teamwork could be vital in a race also featuring to Australians, two Swiss riders and three from the US.

I'm hardly sticking my neck out here but I'll tip Storey for gold. She's just so much stronger than any other female rider here. I'm not sure what the others can do to stop her.

Medal table

Despite that sailing gold, Britain are still three medals behind Russia in the medal table. China are top with 64 golds and 167 medals in total, Russia are second with 29 golds and 74 medals altogether, and Britain are third, with 26 golds, 36 silvers and 33 bronzes, a total of 95 medals.

Helena Lucas: gold! Photograph: David Jones/PA

2.12pm BST

Sailing

ParalympicsGB have won their first ever medals in sailing, reports Steven Morris.

The final races in the three classes were called off because of lack of wind in Weymouth and Portland. That means that medals are awarded according to the standings after 10 races.

So, gold for Helena Lucas in the 2.4mR class, probably the trickiest boat and the most competitive fleet. Bronze for Alexandra Rickham and Niki Birrell in the Skud class. They were hoping the wind would blow to give them the chance to upgrade to silver.

Huge disappointment for the Sonar trio of John Robertson, Stephen Thomas and Hannah Stodel. They were penalised four points last night for an off-the-water rule infringement, which dropped them to fifth place from third. The British team are continuing to look at ways of getting that decision reversed. A member of GB's onshore team continued to wipe the boat down after an official told him to stop.

The team's target had been one medal of any colour so they will be delighted to have exceeded expectations.

Tennis

So that's gold, silver and bronze to the Dutch no matter what happens in the final between Esther Vergeer and Aniek van Koot tomorrow.

1.27pm BST

Triple jump

Just watching the recap of this morning's blind triple jump F11 final, in which China's Li Duan missed the pit with one of his feet and could have seriously hurt his ankle. He also almost landed on the rake used to level out the sand. Have they considered widening the sandpit?

Shooting

Sailing

All three races have been delayed due to lack of wind today. According to Channel 4 if they can't start by 1.50pm they won't start at all. If that happens, the standings from yesterday will decide the medals. That would mean gold for Helena Lucas in the single-person keelboat race. But hopefully the wind will pick up so she can win it fair and square - that's British fair play for you.

Helena Lucas. Photograph: Geoff Moore/Rex Features

1.07pm BST

Fencing

Britain's Tom Butcher Hall is through to the 1/8 round of the individual sabre category A competition, and will go up against Meng Chai Cheong of Hong Kong next.

I must admit I didn't know Hong Kong competed separately, but they do - and they're at No 26 in the medal table.

Athletics

Britain's Shelly Woods won her heat of the 1500m T54 wheelchair race. Her compatriot Jade Jones also went through to the final, as fastest loser, despite coming fifth in her heat. The final is tonight at 9.08pm.

Jones was asked about the help she has received from Paralympian Tanni Grey-Thompson and her husband Ian, and said: "They're a big help. They pretty much got me to where I am now."

12.55pm BST

Five-a-side football

China beat Britain in their five-a-side football semi-final. The score was 1-1 at full time, and 2-1 after a penalty shoot-out.

12.52pm BST

For sale

Dogs

Patrick Barkham just spotted a "dog relief area" at Olympic Park – a small enclosed area at the back of some portable toilets where guide dogs can go to relieve themselves on some comfortable and absorbent wood chippings.

I haven't seen any pooches pausing there yet (I haven't noticed any guide dogs at all yet in the Park) but will stake it out later if things are really quiet in the tennis. Shovelling up their excrement must be one of the less popular jobs for the volunteer games makers.

12.35pm BST

Cycling

The men's C4-5 road race, abandoned by Britain's Jon-Allan Butterworth, has just finished, reports Peter Walker - with Ukraine's Yegor Dementyev taking gold to match the medal he won in yesterday's time trial.

He was far enough ahead at the end to cross the line coasting with his hands raised in triumph. China's Liu Xinyang was second and Italy's Michele Pittacolo won the bronze.

12.17pm BST

Cycling

The finish of the women's C1-2-3 road race just flashed past Peter Walker.

China's Zeng Sini took gold with a late breakaway. Germany's Denise Schindler and Alison Jones of the US were battling it out to the line for silver and bronze, with the former just edging it.

12.09pm BST

Shooting

Britain's Karen Butler qualified seventh for today's R8-50m rifle 3 positions SH1 contest. China's Zhang Cuiping, who qualified first, was just two points below the world record, with 577. The finals are at 12.45pm.

12.07pm BST

Here is a summary of this morning’s key events

• It was a great morning for Britain at the Aquatics Centre in the swimming heats. Josef Craig broke the world record in his heat of the 400m freestyle S7. His team-mate Jonathan Fox won the other heat. The final is tonight at 5.47pm. GB’s Susannah Rodgers broke the European record to win her heat of the S7 400m freestyle in 5:22.08. The final is at 5.58pm. Heather Frederiksen won her heat of the 100m freestyle S8, although America's Jessica Long broke the world record to win the other heat. The final is at 7.29pm. GB’s Louise Watkin and Claire Cashmore came first and second in their heat of the 200m medley SM9, and Britain’s Stephanie Millward came in second behind South Africa’s Natalie du Toit in theirs. The final is at 5.38pm. Britain's James Crisp came second in his heat of the men's individual 200m medley SM9. The final is at 5.30pm. Britain's Andrew Mullen qualified for the final of the men's 50m backstroke S5, which is tonight at 7.59pm. Thomas Young and Sean Fraser got through to the final of the 100m freestyle S8, which is at 7.22pm. Aaron Moores and Daniel Pepper qualified for tonight’s 100m breaststroke SB14 final, for athletes with an intellectual disability. In the woman’s version of the same event, the Paralympic record was broken in each of the three heats, which meant Britain’s Natalie Massey was edged out of qualifying despite coming second in her heat, which was the slowest of the three.

•GB’s Hannah Cockroft broke the Paralympic record to win her heat of the 200m T34 wheelchair race in 33.20sec. Her team-mate Melissa Nicholls also qualified for tonight’s final, which is at 7.44pm, but Cockroft - who won gold at the 100m event on Friday - seems utterly dominant right now.

Cycling

Jon-Allan Butterworth has been speaking to the press at Brands Hatch after pulling out of the road race four laps into the 10-lap distance, reports Peter Walker.

The former RAF technician's debut Paralympics is over, and his record reads: five events, three silver medals. All three medals have come on the track, and Butterworth said he hoped to ride in more road events to gain experience. “Come Rio hopefully I’ll be unstoppable," said a man never knowingly short on self-confidence.

Of today's event he said: “I’ve got a good turn of speed so my plan was to try and sit in and get to the end. I always said that if I was there at the end I’d have a good chance. But getting to the end is the hard bit, isn’t it? Some of these guys just focus on the road race and time trial, and they haven’t been riding the track. Obviously there’s the crash as well [he was hit by a team-mate’s tandem]. But I’m glad I started and could prolong my Games experience a bit.”

Overall, the Paralympics had been "an amazing experience”, both for the home support and for life in the athletes' village: “You get the food hall and you’ve got all the nations sitting together. It’s quite surreal, obviously, with a past military background, You’ve got Iraqis and Iranians, people like that, and everyone’s really friendly.”

12.00pm BST

Sailing

Steven Morris reports a frustrating start to the final day of Paralympic sailing in Weymouth and Portland.

Not enough wind to get the last races in the three classes under way. GB guaranteed medals in two of the three classes these would be the team's first ever Paralympic sailing medals. Just spotted tweet from the Sonar team @BritishSonar. They have been holed up in their container on the boat park passing the time watching Top Gun.

11.59am BST

Cycling

Peter Walker has been speaking to cyclist Jon-Allan Butterworth:

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Just had a chat with Butterworth - said he was exhausted and isn't a fan of the longer distance races. He's mainly a track sprinter.

Swimming

Another British victory: Heather Frederiksen won her heat of the 100m freestyle S8.

Her team-mate Emma Hollis, who has suffered an ankle injury, came sixth in her heat, which was won by America's Jessica Long, who broke the world record with a time of 1:06.06.

The final is tonight at 7.29pm.

11.20am BST

Cycling

Peter Walker has had to turn to the official results service for confirmation of Jon-Allan Butterworth's fate in the C4-5 road race - after three of the 10 8km laps he was more than a minute down on the then-22 strong main pack. There's been a breakaway at the front since, but however it goes this race is over for the Briton, medal-wise, Peter writes.

11.16am BST

Swimming

Britain's Thomas Young came fourth and Sam Hynd came seventh in that heat of the 100m freestyle S8.

Young and Fraser are through to tonight's final at 7.22pm, but Hynd didn't make it.

11.13am BST

Cycling

Even though Peter Walker is at Brands Hatch, it's not much easier for him to see what's going on in the road race, he explains:

We only see the riders go past a couple of times per lap from different sides, and the TV footage is a bit confusing. But it looks as if Jon-Allan Butterworth is no longer part of the main leading pack in the men's C4-5 road race, and presumably no longer in contention for a medal.

11.11am BST

Swimming

Sean Fraser of Britain came third in his heat of the men's 100m freestyle S8. Wang Yinan of China won the heat.

Fellow Brits Thomas Young and bronze-medallist Sam Hynd will race in the next heat.

11.03am BST

Cycling

The racing has begun for a second day at Brands Hatch, with two of the four events under way. Jon-Allan Butterworth, still heavily bandaged after being "taken out" by tandem team-mates in training on Tuesday, remains near the front of the peloton for the men's C4-5 road race, but the pace is picking up a touch. It's an 80km race so there's a long way to go.

Butterworth said yesterday, after coming a disappointing 13th in the time trial, that if he got dropped by the bunch he might give up. But no sign of that yet.

10.50am BST

Swimming

That was an incredibly fast set of heats of the women's 100m breaststroke SB14, for athletes with an intellectual disability. The Paralympic record was broken in each of the three heats.

Holland's Marlou van der Kulk won, breaking the Paralympic record with a time of 1:23.45. But her countrywoman Magda Toeters broke that immediately by winning her heat in 1:20.51, and Michelle Morales Alonso of Spain broke it again in her heat with a time of 1:18.78.

Britain's Natalie Massey came second in her heat of the women's 100m Breaststroke SB14, and might reasonably have expected to have qualified for tonight's final. But she was edged out by the speed of swimmers in the other two heats.

Updated at 10.50am BST

10.39am BST

Swimming

Here's Josef Craig after winning his heat of the men's 400m freestyle S7 heat and breaking the world record earlier.

Photograph: John Walton/PA Wire

10.34am BST

Swimming

That world record stood for at least two minutes. Yasuhiro Tanaka of Japan just broke it with a time of 1:07:08.

Britain's Aaron Moores came fourth, but both he and Pepper qualify for tonight's final.

10.31am BST

Swimming

Britain's Dan Pepper came in third in that heat of the 100m backstroke SB14, but Russia's Artem Pavlenko broke the world record to win with a time of 1:08.08.

Britain's Aaron Moore is in the next heat.

Athletes with an intellectual impairment compete in class 14.

The final is at 6.24pm.

10.25am BST

Swimming

Jacqueline Freney of Australia just broke the Paralympic record to win her heat of the S7 400m freestyle in 5:01.04. These records are going like hot cakes.

10.17am BST

Swimming

Well, the British swimmers are running this pool this morning. Susannah Rodgers's European-record-breaking time in the S7 heat was 5:22.08. The final is tonight at 5.58pm.

10.16am BST

Swimming

That was a tough battle between Britain's Susannah Rodgers and Ani Palian of the Ukraine, but Rogers pulled decisively away in the last length and broke the European record to win the race.

10.13am BST

Swimming

New world-record-holder Josef Craig was just interviewed on Channel 4. He said:

I didn't even know what I'd done 'til it said world record ... I want out fast and thought, "Oh, I'm going to muck this up again," but then I thought: have a bit of fun with it.

10.11am BST

Swimming

Swimming

Britain's Jonathan Fox led his heat of the 400m freestyle S7 from the beginning, but Andrey Gladkov of Russia began to match him down the final leg. Fox won, but it was very close, and he didn't get near Craig's new world record.

9.59am BST

Swimming

Josef Craig tore up the pool just then. The old world record was 4.47.16 and he swam home in 4.45.79. That was stunning.

9.58am BST

Swimming

This is shaping up to be a good morning in the pool for GB. Britain's Josef Craig just broke the world record in his heat of the 400m freestyle S7.

Jonathan Fox races in the next heat.

The final is tonight at 5.47pm.

9.49am BST

Swimming

Stephanie Millward was leading in the backstroke leg of this 200m medley SM9 heat, but South Africa's Natalie du Toit hauled herself past the Briton in the breaststroke. Du Toit finished first, Millward second.

The final is tonight at 5.38pm.

9.46am BST

Swimming

Britain's Louise Watkin and Claire Cashmore moved into the front in that 200m medley SM9 heat and came in neck and neck with each other at the end of the heat. Watkin won, with Cashmore second.

9.42am BST

Swimming

Britain's Louise Watkin and Claire Cashmore are racing next in the first heat of the women's 200m individual medley SM9. Fellow Briton Stephanie Millward races in the next heat, alongside South Africa's Natalie du Toit.

9.39am BST

Swimming

Britain's James Crisp came second in his heat of the men's individual 200m medley SM9. The final is tonight at 5.30pm.

Because breaststroke uses the legs more, athletes can have a different classification number for breaststroke and medley events, which start with SB and SM. As usual the lower the number the higher the level of impairment.

8.49am BST

Good morning, and welcome to day eight of the 2012 Paralympics.

Bad news. Russia have stormed ahead of GB in the medal table. Britain is in third place, with 25 golds and 92 medals altogether. Russia are second with 28 golds and 73 medals in total. China are top with 60 golds and 159 medals altogether. Britain had better pull it out of the bag today. Luckily there are a few strong chances for them to do so.

Coming up today, with thanks to my colleague Chris Hutchinson:

9am onwards: shooting

The Royal Artillery Barracks hosts the qualifications and finals for both the women's R8-50m rifle 3 positions-SH1, and the mixed P4-50m pistol-SH1 today. GB's medal hopeful, Karen Butler, starts at 9am in the women's event, and if she qualifies, she'll take part in the final at 12.45pm. In Paralympic shooting, SH1 classification means athletes can support the weight of their firearm themselves.

9am onwards: five-a-side football

China play Britain in the men’s semi-finals 5-8 at 11.15am.

9.30am onwards: swimming

There are 15 medals up for grabs in the pool today. Britain has a number of hopefuls, most notably Stephanie Millward in the 200m medley SM9 (heats 9.40am, final 5.38pm), while Jonathan Fox looks for a second gold medal in the 400m freestyle S7 (heats 9.51am, final 5.47pm), and Heather Frederiksen races for her third medal in the 100m freestyle S8 (heats 11.10am, final 7.29pm). Men's 100m freestyle S9 world record holder Matthew Cowdrey of Australia is back and will race in the heats at 9.30am (final 5.30pm).

In Paralympic swimming there are 14 classes. In classes 1-10, athletes have physical impairments, in 11-13 athletes have a visual impairment and in 14 athletes have intellectual impairments. The lower the number in each class, the greater the impact the impairment has on the athlete.

10am onwards: athletics

This evening, in perhaps the biggest race of the Paralympics, South Africa’s Oscar Pistorius will go up against his “battle of the blades” rival Alan Oliveira in the 100m T44 - but the favourite, and fastest qualifier last night, is Britain’s Jonnie Peacock. The USA's Jerome Singleton and Blake Leeper are also among those in the running at 9.24pm. David Weir is in action again at 9.15pm in the final of the 800m T54 after his stunning qualification race yesterday. He faces France's Julien Casoli and second fastest qualifier Lixin Zhang of China. Meanwhile Britain’s Sophie Kamlish competes in the T44 200m final at 8.48pm. Both heats were very fast yesterday, with the Paralympic and world records both being broken. And British gold-medal-winner Hannah Cockroft will be back to take part in the 200m T34 – the heats are at 11.41am, and the final is at 7.44pm. There are also four medal events this morning, with the men's discus F51/52/53, men's triple jump F11, men's shot put F40 and women's discus F376 finals all before 11am. GB hopefuls here include Kyron Duke (shot put) and Beverley Jones (discus). Dan Greaves is another of Britain’s discus hopefuls tonight in the F44 final at 9pm.

10.30am onwards: cycling

There are four medal events at Brands Hatch today, with many of Britain’s velodrome medal-winners hoping to reproduce that form on the road. In the men's individual C4-5 road race at 10.30am, Jon-Allan Butterworth will aim to add to his three silver medals, following his disappointment in yesterday’s time trial. Mark Colbourne, who already has one gold and two silvers from these Games, will be racing in the men's individual C1-3 road race starting at 2.30pm. And Britain’s Paralympic cycling superstar Sarah Storey, who has three golds from these Games so far, one won yesterday, will be looking for another podium finish when her final event, the C4-5 road race, begins at 2.32pm. If she wins today – and she has been head and shoulders above her rivals in her other races – she will equal Tanni Grey-Thompson’s record of 11 Paralympic gold medals.

In cycling, C1-C5 athletes have an impairment that affects their legs, arms and/or trunk but compete using a standard bicycle. The lower the number, the greater the impact their impairment has on their ability to cycle.

11.00am onwards: sailing

After 10 intense races, today sees the final race of the Paralympic sailing events in the three-person, two-person and single-person keelboat events at Weymouth and Portland. Helena Lucas is guaranteed silver and looks good for gold in the single-person keelboat (2.4mR) at 4.02pm. Duo Alexandra Rickham and Niki Birrell, who had victories in the 2009, 2010 and 2011 world championships, will be looking to take the gold later today, and are guaranteed bronze or better. Rickham and Birrell's Skud18 race starts at 3.52pm. In the three-person keelboat (Sonar), John Robertson, Hannah Stodel and Thomas Stephen race at 11am.

Any athletes with physical and/or visual impairments are eligible to compete in Paralympic sailing.

11am onwards: wheelchair fencing

Britain’s Tom Butcher Hall is competing in the individual sabre category A – qualification begins at 11am. There are two categories in fencing, A representing a more severe impairment than B.

Midday onwards: tennis

Jiske Griffioen of Holland plays Sabine Ellerbrock of Germany for the bronze medal in the women’s singles tournament at midday. The final – Holland’s unbeatable Esther Vergeer v countrywoman Aniek van Koot – is tomorrow. The men’s singles tournament is also dominated by the Dutch, with Dutchmen Maikel Scheffers and Ronald Vink playing France’s Stephane Houdet and Japan’s Shingo Kunieda respectively in the semi-finals today. The quad singles and men’s and women’s doubles are also at semi-final stage, with Britain’s Lucy Shuker and Jordanne Whiley playing Griffioen and van Koot in the women’s competition. Play starts at midday, but I can’t give exact times after that – you know what tennis is like.

2pm onwards: wheelchair rugby

If you enjoyed the murderball yesterday, there are four more games today, including Britain v France at 7pm.